This law firm appears to have lost every UDRP case it has filed on behalf of Complainants. Its latest resulted in a reverse domain name hijacking decision.
When is it time for a law firm to brush up on UDRP rules? How about when it goes to 0 for 6 as a Complainant’s representative?
That’s Gearhart Law’s record after losing a case for demoji.com.
The domain name owner registered demoji.com years before the Complainant claimed rights to a trademark for demoji, making this case dead on arrival. The Complainant argued the domain ownership might have changed more recently because Whois showed an “updated date,” but when attorney John Berryhill provided evidence of the earlier registration, the Complainant stuck to its guns. So, this case was dead on arrival because the Complainant could not show that the domain was registered in bad faith to target it.
Thus, panelist Luca Barbero found in the domain owner’s favor and found reverse domain name hijacking.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to Gearhart Law.
After all, this is the fourth of six cases it has filed that had the same fact pattern, and it hasn’t won any of the six cases it filed.
Perhaps Gearhart Law should stick to defending cases. Based on my search, it’s a perfect 1 for 1 in those cases.
Squarely says
The law firm did not lose,the loser is the one that hires them.
Law firms get paid regardless they win or lose…..they get paid more if they win
Jessie_Villanueva says
I bet the law firm knew they had no case but was’t honest enough with the complainant about the prospects of winning the case. So Gearhart filed and got paid for filing. The real loser is the complainant for hiring such an ill-equipped firm without checking their UDRP success rate.